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Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

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  • © 2005

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  1. Marea Mitchell
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  2. Dianne Osland
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 1-24

  3. Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 25-51

  4. ‘Free Gift Was What He Wished’: Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 52-74

  5. Stratagems and Seeming Constraints, or, How to Avoid Being a ‘Grey-hounds Collar’

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 75-95

  6. ‘A Scheme of Virtuous Politics’: Governing the Self in ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’ (1656), The History of the Nun (1689), Love Intrigues (1713), and Love in Excess (1720)

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 96-116

  7. Poor in Everything But Will: Richardson’s Pamela

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 117-140

  8. Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2 and The Female Quixote

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 141-157

  9. ‘It Was Happy She Took a Good Course’: Saving Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 158-174

  10. Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre?

    • Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
    Pages 175-193

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 194-247
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About this book

This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia

About the authors

MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialist perspective, and her most recent publications are on The Book of Margery Kempe, Anna Weamys, and Sidney's Arcadia.

DIANNE OSLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Media at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century fiction, romance fiction, the ethics of autobiography, and discursive writing, and she has published most recently on Jane Eyre and The Stone Diaries, Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Richardson's Clarissa.

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